Similarity of Attitudes and Attraction to a Social Organization

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1071-1073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence R. Good ◽  
Katherine C. Good
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Attitude Similarity ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Group Unity

65 college students completed an attitude survey and subsequently received an attitude survey covering the same issues which purportedly represented the attitudes held by most of the members of a college fraternity or sorority. Ss then filled out a judgment scale calling for evaluations of the organization's likely feelings of belongingness, cooperative atmosphere, sense of group unity, and pride in the organization. In addition, they indicated how much they would probably like the fraternity or sorority and how much they would enjoy being a member. The hypothesized effect of attitude similarity on attraction was confirmed for both liking and desire to be a member. Perceptions of feelings of belongingness and cooperative atmosphere were also significantly influenced by similarity of attitudes.

Similarity to a Group and Desire for Leadership Status

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-762
Author(s):  
Lawrence R. Good ◽  
Katherine C. Good
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Attitude Similarity ◽  
Leadership Position ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Group Judgment ◽  
Small Work

48 college students filled out a 14-item Survey of Attitudes and subsequently received an attitude survey purportedly representing the attitudes and opinions held by most of the members of a small work-group which evidenced either 14% or 86% agreement with each S's own views. Ss then filled out a Group Judgment Scale for their evaluations of the stimulus groups. The hypothesized effect of person-group attitude similarity on one's desire for leadership status in the group (enjoy functioning in a leadership capacity and perceived ease of functioning effectively in a leadership position) was confirmed.

On the Substantiality of Form: Interpreting Symbolic Expression in the Paradigm of Social Organization

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-648
Author(s):  
Michael Korovkin ◽  
Guy Lanoue
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Group ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Symbolic Expression ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Group Unity

The publication of Sir James Frazer's Totemism and Exogamy raised as many problems for anthropologists as it tried to solve: namely, why do symbols that stand for any social group become imbued with religious, ritual, social, and mystical significance, and how do these totemic conceptual systems relate to systems of action? More often than not, symbols of group unity—whatever the group—possess more than one dimension, and these dimensions are often hard to differentiate analytically and ethnographically. In the mainstream of anthropology symbols and their use have been deemed to reflect patterns of social organization. Within this paradigm the majority of authors treat the choice of symbol as either essentially arbitrary or deterministically compelled. We find that the old paradigm of symbol as a reflection of something essentially social—cultural inversion, as some authors would have it, or vaguely and vulgarly determined as others put it—is rather suspect.

College Students' Racial Attitude Survey

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-yi Hong ◽  
Jill Coleman ◽  
Gloria Chan ◽  
Rosanna Y. M. Wong ◽  
Chi-yue Chiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Racial Attitude ◽  
Attitude Survey

Singing Heaven Down to Earth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique M. Ingalls
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Worship Music ◽  
Contemporary Worship ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Congregational Music

Chapter 2 examines how two large, interdenominational multi-day conferences for evangelical college students use contemporary worship music. Interpreting these events through the lenses of pilgrimage and eschatology, it demonstrates that conferences like these serve as sacred centers for powerful spiritual experiences mediated by music. When participants sing contemporary worship songs together, they imagine the conference gathering as an embodiment of the heavenly community and their singing as the “sound of heaven.” As conference attendees collectively perform the heavenly community into being, they also imagine their relationships to others both within and outside the conference. Comparing lyrics, musical performance, and social organization of congregational music-making at the two conferences reveals that the two events encourage participants to conceive the heavenly community very differently, resulting in diverging understandings of their relationship to Christians of other gendered, racial and ethnic, and national backgrounds.

Romantic Attitudes of American University Students

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Prentice ◽  
Nancy E. Briggs ◽  
David W. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Validation Sample ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
American University ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Major Factors

To identify attitudes toward romantic behavior among college students and to construct an instrument which measures those attitudes two phases of a romantic attitude survey were administered in successive samples to a total of 787 college students. Three major dimensions of romantic love were identified as Traditional Romance, Sexual Behavior, and Routine Activities. Four additional, less stable factors also emerged but were absorbed by the three major factors in the cross-validation sample. The more salient indicaters of romance were found among Traditional Romance and Sexual Behavior factors.

Assumed Attitude Similarity and Perceived Intrafamilial Communication and Understanding

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence R. Good ◽  
Katherine C. Good ◽  
Don A. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Attitude Similarity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
College Age ◽  
Symmetry Theory ◽  
Assumed Similarity

It was hypothesized that offspring assume greater similarity of attitudes between themselves and their parents than is actually present and that degree of assumed similarity correlates positively with the amount of communication and understanding offspring perceive to have with their parents. College students filled out questionnaires assessing their own attitudes for a variety of issues, their beliefs about the attitudes held by their parents on the same issues, and rating-scales for the communication and understanding existing between themselves and each parent. To ascertain the level of actual attitude similarity, parents were mailed questionnaires and asked to return them after indicating their own opinions on each issue. The results showed that both male and female college-age offspring tend to assume more similarity between themselves and parents than there is and that variance in assumed similarity is positively correlated with ratings of communication-understanding with parents. The relevance of these predictions and findings to Newcomb's cognitive-symmetry theory was discussed.

Attitude Similarity and Attraction to an Instructor

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine C. Good ◽  
Lawrence R. Good
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Attitude Similarity ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Class Session ◽  
Instructor Evaluation ◽  
Teaching Competence ◽  
College Instructor

It was hypothesized that a college instructor who is attitudinally similar to oneself will be evaluated more positively than an attitudinally dissimilar one for open-mindedness, promoting feelings of at ease, being stimulating and interesting, over-all teaching competence, personal attractiveness, and desirability as an instructor. Each undergraduate S filled out a 14-item Survey of Attitudes, and, during a later class session, received an attitude survey representing the attitudes and opinions of a hypothetical college instructor who showed either 14% or 86% agreement with S's own views. S then filled out an Instructor Evaluation Scale for his evaluations of the stimulus person. The hypothesized effect of attitude similarity was confirmed for all of the evaluation variables.

Lessons Learned From Coaching Postsecondary Students With Traumatic Brain Injury

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-96
Author(s):  
Mary R. T. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Sudden Onset ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Exhaustive List

Purpose The purpose of this clinical focus article is to provide speech-language pathologists with a brief update of the evidence that provides possible explanations for our experiences while coaching college students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Method The narrative text provides readers with lessons we learned as speech-language pathologists functioning as cognitive coaches to college students with TBI. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather to consider the recent scientific evidence that will help our understanding of how best to coach these college students. Conclusion Four lessons are described. Lesson 1 focuses on the value of self-reported responses to surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. Lesson 2 addresses the use of immediate/proximal goals as leverage for students to update their sense of self and how their abilities and disabilities may alter their more distal goals. Lesson 3 reminds us that teamwork is necessary to address the complex issues facing these students, which include their developmental stage, the sudden onset of trauma to the brain, and having to navigate going to college with a TBI. Lesson 4 focuses on the need for college students with TBI to learn how to self-advocate with instructors, family, and peers.

Effects of Physical Training on Stuttering

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Don Franks ◽  
Elizabeth B. Franks
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Group Therapy ◽  
Physical Training ◽  
Cardiovascular Response ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Physical Stress ◽  
Submaximal Exercise ◽  
Endurance Running ◽  
Response To Exercise

Eight college students enrolled in group therapy for stuttering were divided into two equal groups for 20 weeks. The training group supplemented therapy with endurance running and calisthenics three days per week. The subjects were tested prior to and at the conclusion of the training on a battery of stuttering tests and cardiovascular measures taken at rest, after stuttering, and after submaximal exercise. There were no significant differences (0.05 level) prior to training. At the conclusion of training, the training group was significandy better in cardiovascular response to exercise and stuttering. Although physical training did not significantly aid the reduction of stuttering as measured in this study, training did cause an increased ability to adapt physiologically to physical stress and to the stress of stuttering.

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